Posted by admin in Articles, Sharepoint on 20. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
When using Advanced Search to search for items in a list using a specific property that use a Column name in Greek or any non standard ASCII characters.
after doing incremental crawl and adding the New Metadata Property with the Mapping to the Greek Column, Advanced Search is not working as needed and returns no result for [...]
You have Variations enabled in a SharePoint site based on English language as the main Variation label, and the 2nd Variation Label is for example French language and you want your users to be redirected to the French site whenever they type your site address instead of being redirected to the English site.
By default, the [...]
Am writing this blog to help others who faced such problems and for whom want a quick solution to recover hotmail password.
My email was stolen from sometime and I tried all the ways to retrieve the account which gave me LOTSS of headache before I get it!!! Whenever I try something it doesn’t work !! [...]
Sometimes when you open an excel file from Sharepoint document library you the file opens in Internet explorer using excel services !! if excel services are not configured correctly for this document library then most probably you will get an error such as:
The workbook that you selected cannot be loaded because it contains the following [...]
To Provision a service, 1st enum all services to get the needed all the services and search for the needed service to provision as in the below example:
run: Stsadm –o enumservices
If you are searching for SSP Job Control Service as i did, you can see below that it is disabled so to start it you need [...]
Posted by admin in IIS, Sharepoint on 22. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
If you have SharePoint environment installed on a Domain A where your users belongs to a different domain. When they try to access your portal from outside the network in their offices the requests pass through a firewall residing infront of your SharePoint servers and they get an error in Internet Explorer “Unauthorized”.
Errors in ULS [...]
Posted by admin in Others on 22. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
If you receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version
error:
HTTP 401.1 – Unauthorized: Logon Failed
also if you check your IIS logs for your site you will find 401.2 and 401.1 errors for your requests, then you need to disable the [...]
Posted by admin in IIS, Sharepoint on 21. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
If you get this error:
Session state can only be used when enablesession is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the page directive.
Description: An unhanded exception occured during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Source [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 17. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
If you have “View Only” permissions on the sharepoint site or document library then you will not be able to open excel files or download them localy on your machine, they will open in Internet explorer using excel services.
also you will get this error:
“The workbook that you selected cannot be loaded because it contains the following [...]
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
To know from the feature ID it’s name, use this list or download the excel file from the following URL: HTTP://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/attachment/8370432.ashx
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 12. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Description:
when you browse your sharepoint portal, you get the following error:
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
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Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Exception occurred. [...]
Posted by admin in ASP.net, Sharepoint on 12. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Description:
It is an error in SPS 2003 to use a section registered as allowDefinition=’MachineToApplication’ beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\template\layouts\webapp\web.config line 53)
Source Error:
Line 51:
Line 52:
Line 53: <sessionstate mode=”Inproc” stateconnectionstring=”tcpip=172.0.0.1:42424″ sqlconnectionstring=”data source=127.0.0.1;trust
Line 54:
Line 55:
Solution:
Things i did [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 11. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Description:
Slow performance happens on your sharepoint site and users start getting “Request timed out” errors, after couple minutes the slow behaviour disappears and the site is accessible again.
Error message in the ULS Logs:
Possible deadlock detected while acquiring a readerlock.
An unexpected error occurred while refreshing the shared object manager cache. Reason: This operation returned because the [...]
